Area briefs: Teen's shooting accidental, police say

The shooting of a teenage boy at a southwest Houston apartment complex Saturday night appears to be accidental, authorities said.

Officers were called to the Bellaire Garden Apartment Homes, 6120 Bellaire, around 8 p.m. where they discovered a 16-year-old dead from a gunshot wound, police said.

It appears that two teenagers were playing with a pistol when it went off and struck the victim once in the chest. He died at the scene, police said.

Police arrest naked man vandalizing cars

A naked man vandalized several cars in Galleria Sunday afternoon before he was arrested by the police.

The rampage happened around 1 p.m. when the man used a gun to damage the windshields of at least seven cars - two in the Hotel Derek parking lot, one in a Shell gas station and five cars parked in the W Luxury Car Rentals in Galleria.

"The naked man (was) running around in the street breaking cars," said the store manager of the W Luxury Car rental. "He looked normal, but I am sure he was on something."

The manager estimates the damage to the five cars added up to $200,000. The damaged cars include Mercedez Benz, Lamborghini and other expensive bands.

The man is in police custody. His name hasn't been released.

Husband fatally stabbed amid home argument

A man was fatally stabbed during a domestic disturbance in northwest Houston.

Catarino Tovar was stabbed as investigators arrived his apartment on West T.C. Jester near 610. His common-law wife told police that Tovar physically assaulted her and tried to stab her with a knife but accidentally stabbed himself.

Tovar was taken to the hospital, where he died.

The case is still under investigation, and the wife has not been charged.

Officer opens fire on car after fender-bender

An off-duty Harris County Precinct 7 Constable deputy opened fire at a car after a fender-bender accident in southwest Houston.

The reserve deputy was driving his personal car in uniform when the accident occurred at West Orem near South Post Oak drive around 5 p.m. Saturday. A verbal confrontation ensued between the officer and the other man, who was driving an orange four-door sedan.

As the officer stepped out of his car, the driver hit the deputy with his car. That is when the officer discharged his duty weapon at the orange car, according to HPD investigators.

The other driver fled the scene with no apparent injury and will be charged with aggravated assault against a public servant. Police are still looking for the driver, a man in his late 20s who is 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs about 180 pounds.

The deputy, whose name has not been released, suffered minor injuries.

Anyone with information should call Crime Stopper at 713-222-TIPS (8477).

Woman stabbed to death near TSU campus

A woman was fatally stabbed in a domestic violence Sunday south of downtown.

The incident occurred around 7:45 a.m. in a house in Delano near Alabama, near the Texas Southern University campus.

Kimberly Johnson, 43 died from multiple stabbing wounds. Her husband Herman Johnson, 53 later turned himself in at the HPD headquarter.